Video: Using the exercise files

If you are a Premium member of the lynda.com Online Training Library, or if you're watching this tutorial on a DVD, you have access to the exercise files used throughout this title. I've downloaded the exercise files to the Desktop, they are right here in this folder called Exercise Files. When I open this there are two folders, Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects. You are not going to be able to work with these folders directly where they are. I also do not recommend you copy them directly to your Movies folder, instead for this course, I recommend you create a disk image and copy these folders onto that disk image.

Dive into narrative with Diana Weynand, as she shares a comprehensive method for finding, crafting, and developing a compelling story in Apple Final Cut Pro X. The course also covers key concepts such as building a primary storyline, evaluating content and pacing, trimming distracting clips, creating different story versions, and storyboarding. The course also explores how to capture and organize media, incorporate B-roll cutaways, apply the Ken Burns effect to still images, re-time music and clips, and add finishing touches.

Using the exercise files

If you are a Premium member of the lynda.com Online Training Library, or ifyou're watching this tutorial on a DVD, you have access to the exercise filesused throughout this title.I've downloaded the exercise files to the Desktop, they are right here in thisfolder called Exercise Files.When I open this there are two folders, Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects.You are not going to be able to work with these folders directly where they are.I also do not recommend you copy them directly to your Movies folder, insteadfor this course, I recommend you create a disk image and copy these foldersonto that disk image.

You'll see a lot more on disk images in Chapter 2, but for now I'm going tocreate a disk image and move my exercise files to that so you can see how towork with the files in this course.First I'll need to open up an application called Disk Utility.So I'll just do a quick Spotlight search, and open Disk Utility from there.Disk Utility has lots of different functions and one of those functions isto create disk images.A disk image is a file that lives on your computer that will mount just like anexternal hard drive.

So when a disk image is mounted, your computer will treat it just like anexternal hard drive.So what I will do is create a new disk image by clicking the New Image button right here.I'll have to give this disk image a name, and I'll just call it DP Drive,because the project we'll be working on in this course is called Delicious Peace.I also have to give a name to the mounted volume that will appear when the diskimage is opened and mounted as if it were an external hard drive.I'll just call that Storytelling with FCP X. Now these names don't really matter.

You can choose whatever names you want.Next, I'll set the size of this disk.Remember this disk image behaves like an extra hard drive, but you can determinehow much capacity that drive will have.I'm going to set this to Custom, and in this case I'll choose gigabytes and set it to 4 GBs.Now this disk image won't take up 4 gigabytes right off the bat.Instead it's going to take up only as much space as the files containedinside the disk image.

That's going to work because we're going to set this Image Format to a sparse disk image.That's the way a sparse disk image works.That sparse disk image will only be as big as the files contained in it, and asyou continue to work on your project and add more files, the disk image willgrow up to a maximum of 4 gigabytes.Remember you can create a different maximum size by setting Custom to a higher number.I will leave Format, Encryption and Partitions alone.

I'm going make sure that I save this directly on the Desktop, and I'll goahead and hit Create.Now you see I have the disk image and a mounted volume visible.I'm going to quit Disk Utility.You can see this mounted volume behaves just like an external hard drive.I can right-click on it and hit Eject, and it disappears.This file is the disk image itself, and when I double-click on that, it willremount that volume.So now all you need to do is open up your Exercise Files folder that youdownloaded from lynda.com, select the two folders contained inside, and copythem to that mounted volume.

Okay those files are finished copying so I'll close this window, and when I openup my disk image volume, you'll see the contents are there.So now when you launch Final Cut Pro, Final Cut will recognize the contentsof that disk image.You may see a window like this asking to update your project for the newerversion of Final Cut Pro, I will go ahead and hit OK.And this will update fairly quickly, and once Final Cut finishes loading, you'llsee I have all of the raw footage and projects associated with this course.

Now keep in mind there are no exercise files or projects for this course until Chapter 4.For the first three chapters of this course, you won't need any exercise files.So when I'm finished with Final Cut, I can Quit, and I can Eject this diskimage, but keep in mind each time you want to work on this project, you shoulddouble-click on the disk image to mount that volume before you open up Final Cut Pro.If you're not a Premium subscriber of lynda.com, you don't have access to theexercise files, but you can follow along from scratch with your own assets.

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